National Republican., 1887-07-18

ment said "Tbats Just the promise nave
cleanseth from all SIM" Oh, tho warmth,
the grandeur, the magnifcencc OF the prom
nCome, also, to this Gospel we'll, all ye trou-
bled. / do not suppose you have escaped
Compare your view OF this life at ID years of
age with what your view is Of 1t at 40 or 90 or
20. What great contrast OF opinion We're
you right then, or arc you right now7 Two
cups placed In your hands--the one sweet
cup the other ws'a 5Sp5 cup cup Of Joy and
being full and ont OF which have you the more
frequently .partnken? What a different place
Greenwood is from what It used to be? once
II was to you grand city improvement, and
you went out on the pleasure excursion, and
you ran laughiuRly. up the mound, aud you
criticised In light way NE eDtaph ho , Bs
gate when you went in with the procession,
II is q sad place, and there is food OF rushing
memories that sufiase the eye % and oyermaster ,
trouble. God only knows how much you have
had. 1t is a wonder you have been able to
live through Il II Is wonder your nervous
has not reeled. Trouble trouble. III could
gather all the griefs, of oil sorts, from this
great audience, and could put them in one
SCROLL neither man nor angel could endure the
recitation. Well, what do you want? Would
you like to have your property back againP
mo-" you say, as Christian man, ~ was be-
Lord took It away. don't want to have my
property, back" Well, would you have your
departed friends back aeain1 mo-, you say,
~ couldn't take the responsibility OF bringing
them from fearless realm TO realm OF tears.
couldn't do IT," Well, then, what do you
want2 A thousand voices in the audience cry
out: "Comf0rt, give us COMFORT For that
reason / have rolled away the stone from the
wells mouth. Come, all ye wounded OF the
fock pursued OF the wolves, come 70 the foun-
tain where tho Lords sick and bereft ones
"Ah," says some one, "yon arc not old
enough to understand my sorrows. You have
t,nth hna IL, hi no 40 nj
you can't talk TO me about my misfortunes In
the time of old age" Well, may not have
lived as long as you, but have been great
feel about their failing health and about their
| departed friends and about the loneliness
| that sometimes strikes through their souls.
| or fifty years and one Of them Is taken away.
| what desoationl shall not forget the cry of
| the Rev. DR.. De Witt, of New. York, when he
and after the obsequies had ended he looked
down into the open place and said: Fare.
well, my honored, faithful, aud beloved wife,
in glory. and am here on earth, We shall
meet again. .Farewelll FarewellH' TO lean
on q prop for hily years and then have
two years difference between the death
Of my father and mother. After my
mothers decease. my father used to go around
| oflen get UP from one room, without any, SEEM
ing reason, and go to another room; and then
| he would take bis cane and start out, and some
SS Mona ssasy
thing. Though be was a tender hearted man,
the burial of mysmother. After sixty years
living together 1t was hard to part. And there
| are aged people to-day who are feeling just
pses n Ss o
| Gospel, and come to them and offer them my
arm, or take their arm and / bring them to
sit down. See II there is nytRng at the well ior
you. Come Dayid, the psalmist, have you any
thing encouraging to offer them? yes" says
the psalmist, "they shall still bring forth fruit
in old age; they shall be fat and flolrlshing, to
show that the LORD is upright: He is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness In me" ,
or tbess aged
says ISAIAH down to old age am with thee,
an q TO hoary hairs will carry thee" Well, Il
the Lord ia going to carry. you, you ought not
failing limbs. You get little worried lest
some time you will come to want, do your
Your children and grandchildren sometimes
pens The Eora viii not spese shTp Do
You think l6e lord - Are His granariss
bp' and the he 'sfH 1He the Ga DE dssqr saP
tell US that the poEpoiss WIN
DO you suppose the Lord of heayen and earth
has not as much sympathy as the fish OF the
sea? But you say, II am SO near worn out
think the Lord knows whether you are OF any
more use or not; if you were of no more use
He would have taken you before this. Do you
| think God has forgotten you because He has
taken care Of you seventy or eighty years
He thinks more of you to-day than He eyer
did, because you think KIN more REQ Of Him. May May
and Paul, the aged be your God forever.
But i gather all the promises to-day In a
group, and ask the shepherds to drive theil
suppy BenolS % happy IS tn the IN man inv whom GOD
coriecteth." "Thouggh He cause grief, yei
will He have compassion" Many are. the
h% N as he@ ansa
morning" | am determined this morning
ote6 9ender Is GnT md and and aSe
soul who seems TO hide away from the consola
!ions am uttering, ass child with sore nant
hides away from the physician lest he toncl s.I
has to so and compel the little patien
To- G.,o come out oonsa aud sec von1 the ,P%i' ply
| come out in the presence OF the Divine Physi
clan; He will not hurt YOU. He has beer
healing wounds for many years, and He viii
But people, when they have trouble, go any
where rather than to God: DeQuincy tool
opium to get rid of his troubles, Charlie
Il
something stronger. Edwin Forrest TOOK 4
theatrical dissipation. And men have run all
around the earth, hoping in the quick transit
been dead failure. There is only one wei
that can slake the thirst of an afflicted spirit
and that Is the deep and inexhaus'ible well q
But some one says in the audience: mo,
| withstanding all you have said this morning
find no alleviation for my troubles" We'll
| potent consideration for the last. am goin
to soothe you with the thought Of heaven
, However talkative we may be, there vii
phatic Interrogation viii evoke from us no az
swer. As soon as we have closed our lips 70
: the final silence, no power on earth can brea
be your spiritY In scene OF Infinite gladaes,
blossoms in the bright air. Victors fresh fror
earthly % SORROW SORROW struck @ through with the % rair
/ angels and the Iedeemed--Paul and siia,
ana SPd john Mfy Milton sh sps and ieiSs Mh
!. the archangel. Long line Of choristers react
l ing across the hills. Seas of Joy dashing to tn
i white beach. Conquerors marching from gat
8 oh, what great flock of sheep God wi
gather around the celestial we'll. No stone o
!. The wells mouth, while the shepherd watei
the shepherdess. And standing on one side {
the well OF eternal rapture your children, an
standing on the other side OF eternal raptui
your Christian ancestry, you Will be bounde
on all sides by a Joy so keen and grand that u
other world has ever been permitted to exper
ence II. Out of that one deep well Of heaye
, the Shepherd will dip reunion for the bt
7 reaved. wealth for the poor health for th
d sick, rest for the weary, and then all the doc
!, of the Lords sheep will lie down IN the gree
{ pastures, and world without end. we wi
T praise the Lord that on this summer Sabbat
. morning we were permitted to study the stor
. Of jacob and Rachel, the shepherdess at tt
well in MesopOtamia.
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